Chef Automate, Chef’s Continuous Automation solution is tightly integrated with Amazon Web Services (AWS). If you’re using AWS now, Chef gives you a single, unified way to automate AWS services and resources. If you’re thinking of using AWS, Chef will help you migrate your workloads at your own pace, and with complete control. Together with AWS, Chef helps customers tackle risk and compliance barriers blocking cloud migration.

Deploy and manage Chef Automate Easily in the cloud

AWS Opswork for Chef Automate

AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate provides a fully managed instance of Chef Automate. Included is a suite of automation tools that give you workflow automation for continuous deployment, automated testing for compliance, and security with a user interface that gives you visibility into your nodes and their status.

Chef Automate includes multiple views for compliance reporting supporting industry benchmarks such as PCI or HIPAA.

The Chef Automate instance gives you full stack automation by handling operational tasks such as software and operating system configurations, package installations, database setups, and more.

AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate (OWCA) provides a fully-managed Chef Automate instance that you can use to manage both AWS EC2 instances and data center servers.

Improve Efficiency

Decrease Risk

Define compliance rules as code

Deliver continuous compliance as part of standard workflow

Benefits of Using Chef with AWS

Acceleration to the Cloud

Do you want to take advantage of the cloud and move your workloads to AWS? Chef makes your adoption path not just smooth, but fast. Take advantage of Chef’s expertise and use existing Chef recipes to configure and manage AWS resources and services. Migrate workloads quickly, consistently and at a pace that suits your business needs.

Standardization of Environments

With Chef, you can guarantee consistency from one environment to the next, even in the dynamic world of the cloud. If your organization is actively building software using AWS today or running production workloads there, Chef can help. Use Chef to standardize your cloud and data center environments to create a smooth workflow where your Dev and Ops teams can build, deploy and manage workloads quickly, reducing time to market.

AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate is one of the most awesome services Amazon has. ….. It’s very easy to hand it to our team in India (and say, ‘guys, build another one.’). They’re able to package everything together and deliver it to the business without any previous experience with Chef.